Written by J.R.R. Tolkien - Audio book performed by full cast - Original Radio Show Dramatization - Fiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3.5 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audio (April 2002)

The Original American Production

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This performance is the acclaimed American production broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR)---fully dramatized, complete with music and sound effects, and digitally remastered.

In the ancient world of Middle-earth--a place of elves and dwarves, orcs and wizards, the darkest evil and the brightest good--a hobbit named Frodo Baggins embarks on a perilous quest: to carry the One Ring, ruler of all the Rings of Power, into the shadowy land of Mordor and destroy it in the fires where it was forged.